'My Mother is a Lunar Crater' is nominated for two awards

Thrilled to learn today that my short story "My Mother is a Lunar Crater" was awarded second prize in Zoetrope: All Story's short fiction competition
https://www.all-story.com/contests/  The judge was the luminous Colum McCann, whom I have been reading and loving for years and years. 
(His gorgeous 'Everything in this Country Must' is possibly the short story I have re-read most -- it always tugs, always sings.) 

This fall "My Mother is a Lunar Crater" was also selected as a runner up for the Margarita Donnelly Prize for prose writing in Calyx magazine. 

I love both these magazines! 

Delighted to be listed with these amazing writers!


I do indeed want to read them all. 

And a thought. At one time, I’d have asked, why “Muslim woman writer” and wondered which was more questionable – woman or Muslim. But given how rarely Muslim writers -- especially women -- are read, and yet how universally we are spoken for and policed, enough pretending that this exclusion is an accident. And thank you, Nylon.com !

THINNER THAN SKIN: A Full Listing of UK Launch Events

Please join me for one or all of these events! Some will be panels, others individual readings/conversations.

SATURDAY 26th MAY 3:00-4:00 Litro World Series Lecture at SOAS in Russell Square. 
Readings by Mary Lynn Bracht (White Chrysanthemum), Uzma Aslam Khan (Trespassing, The Geometry of God, Thinner Than Skin), and Manu Plilal.
Location: SOAS University. 

SUNDAY 27th MAY 11:45-1pmBare Lit Festival  http://barelitfestival.com/events-2018/2018/5/27/panel-intimate-borders
Panel discussion on borders & migration with journalist Kiri Kankhwende, novelist Uzma Aslam Khan, and director Asim Abassi.
Location: The Albany

MONDAY 28th MAY 4:00-6:00 'Meet the writer Uzma Aslam Khan'. Reading/conversation/discussion. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/2273321636028136/
Location: Senate House, Royal Holloway, University of London 


WEDNESDAY 30th MAY 30. 7:00-9:00p.m: reading/talk/dinner.  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-uzma-aslam-khan-tickets-45657884963
Location: National Liberal Club

SATURDAY 2nd JUNE 3:00-4:00 p.m. A New Narrative on Pakistan 

"An Evening with Uzma Aslam Khan" on 30th May 2018 at 6.30, London, UK

Please join me for a reading and discussion of Thinner Than Skin, just out in the UK.

Date and Time: Wednesday, 30th May 2018 at 6:30.

Location: Lady Violet Room, National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Court, LONDON SW1A 2HE

Tickets and Event Details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-uzma-aslam-khan-tickets-45657884963


Exciting Events at the University of Rochester in Upstate NY

Come hear us read at the University of Rochester on Friday, January 19, 2018 at 7:00 p.m., at the Welles-Brown Room, Rhush Rhees Library.

If like me you'd rather stay indoors when it's freezing, I won't take it personally.

Though, I'd love to see you, and the reading/conversation could transport you...